Amber Ferger
Manager Advanced Analytics at Highmark Health
Buffalo, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmber Ferger is a data-driven analytics leader in healthcare, currently serving as Manager Advanced Analytics at Highmark Health in Buffalo, NY. She leads a diverse team of data scientists, analysts, and engineers, driving data-driven methodologies for Payment Integrity and NLP applications and shepherding projects from requirements to production using SQL, Python, R, and Google Cloud Platform. With 8+ years in the field, she builds predictive models, performs advanced statistical analyses on large claims data, and translates technical results into strategic business insights for cross-functional stakeholders. Her experience spans roles at BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and Highmark Health, including NLP with medical ontologies (UMLS, SNOMED, ICD-10) and automation of data workflows, dashboards, and self-service analytics. She holds an MS in Data Science from CUNY SPS and a BS in Bioengineering from Binghamton University, and is adept at project management, roadmap planning, and leading teams through Confluence and Jira. Based in Buffalo, she combines technical depth with a collaborative leadership style to turn complex healthcare data into actionable improvements.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
4.0, 4.0 at CUNY School of Professional Studies
English
Github Skills (10)
tidyverse3
datasets2
machine-learning2
python2
big-data1
deep-learning1
data-analytics1
collaboration1
data-science1
data-engineering1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amberferger/DATA605_Homework
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
chrosemo/data612_group_assignments
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:30 pushes in 1 month
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